Department of Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen.
Deutsches Museum.
J Exp Psychol Appl. 2023 Dec;29(4):793-812. doi: 10.1037/xap0000489. Epub 2023 Aug 17.
In an attempt to display themselves as warm, approachable, and trustworthy, researchers might reveal personal details about themselves (i.e., self-disclosure) when communicating their science to the public. Here, we test whether self-disclosure in science communication can actually increase public trust in science. We present six online experiments (overall = 2,431), integrate their results in a mini meta-analysis, and report a field experiment in a science museum ( = 480): In sum, our findings suggest that self-disclosure leads to small, but measurable increases in laypeople's feelings of closeness toward researchers and perceptions of researchers' warmth-related trustworthiness; yet, self-disclosure also leads to decreases in competence-related trustworthiness perceptions. The credibility of scientific findings was, overall, unaffected by self-disclosing communication. Findings from the field study further question whether self-disclosure in science communication has any practical relevance. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).
为了表现出热情、平易近人和值得信赖的形象，研究人员在向公众传播科学知识时，可能会透露一些个人信息（即自我披露）。在这里，我们检验了科学传播中的自我披露是否真的可以增加公众对科学的信任。我们进行了六项在线实验（总计 = 2431），并将其结果整合在一个小型元分析中，还在一个科学博物馆进行了现场实验（ = 480）：总的来说，我们的研究结果表明，自我披露会使公众对研究人员的亲近感和对研究人员与温暖相关的信任度的感知产生微小但可衡量的增加；然而，自我披露也会导致对能力相关的信任度的感知下降。科学发现的可信度总体上不受自我披露交流的影响。现场研究的结果进一步质疑了科学传播中的自我披露是否具有任何实际意义。
